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Acorn Salt and Pepper Shaker in Green Glaze
From the early 1940's, Red Wing Potteries produced a variety a stylized and whimsical kitchen and dinner pieces in a variety of colors. This salt and pepper shaker is in the shape of a pair of acorns and comes in a green glaze which is one of the rare and more difficult to find colors. The bottom of this shaker is marked RED WING U.S.A. This shaker is in very good condition with no chips or cracks. There is a touch of very light crazing which is very difficult to see. Red Wing Potteries produced a host of brightly glazed serving pieces that could either be used with other patterns in the Gypsy Trail line or all by themselves. Hostess Ware includes pitchers, jugs, tea and coffee pots, casseroles, cookie jars, bowls, serving dishes, planters, salt and peppers and canisters. Gypsy trail is the first dinnerware line produced by the Red Wing Potteries. It consists of four different patterns and related serving pieces. Red Wing Potteries gradually converted from producing stoneware to dinnerware and art pottery. Starting in the 1930's and through their closure in 1967, Red Wing Potteries produced over a hundred different dinnerware patterns. Forms ranged from traditional shapes to the whimsical. Patterns included every design from floral motifs to the abstract. They produced heavy ceramic, fine china and economy dinnerware sets. Some patterns consisted of mostly flatware with few serving pieces. Some patterns consisted of only serving pieces. Other patterns had both. On the bottom of most Red Wing dinnerware pieces you will find three little dots. These dots are left in the glaze by the little tripod that the Potteries used to support the piece when they fired it in the kiln. The three dots are not damage, they are a remnant of the manufacturing process and authenticate the piece as being actual Red Wing.
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